10/27/2022

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting applications for the Public Scholars program.

06/21/2022

LSA Fellow Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago) was elected to the American Philosophical Society on May 25, 2022.

06/14/2022

Three LSA members—David Adger, Anne Cutler, and Alice Harris—were recently installed as Fellows of the British Academy.

05/18/2022

Angelika Kratzer has been chosen to deliver the 2022 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford. Brian Joseph awarded an honorary doctorate.

04/14/2022

LSA Members Christine Beier and Joe Pater have been awarded grants from the NEH and NSF, respectively.

04/11/2022

Congratulations to LSA member Vera Gribanova (Stanford University), who is the sole linguist to receive the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship award for 2022.

03/01/2022

The LSA regrets to announce the death of longtime member Byron W. Bender, which occured on 4 January 2020, but was not reported via LSA communications channels until this week.

02/03/2022

We regret to report the death of longtime LSA member James W. Marchand (1926-2021). Marchand first joined the LSA in 1953 and has been a member for many years since. We share the following notice provided by his colleagues at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:

02/02/2022

We regret to report the death of longtime LSA member and fellow Nora England (1946-2022). England first joined the LSA in 1973 and has been a life member for many years. England was also the recipient of the LSA’s Kenneth Hale Award in 2016.

01/27/2022

Anne Charity HudleyColleen Fitzgerald, and Cecile McKee were elected Fellows by the AAAS.

01/25/2022

LSA fellow and life member Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University) was awarded the Atkinson Prize in Psychological a

11/17/2021

With regret and sorrow we have to inform you about the demise of Pieter A.M. Seuren (1934-2021).

09/28/2021

The LSA regrets to announce the passing of longtime LSA member Harriet Klein (Montclair State University and Stony Brook University).

09/23/2021

Two bills are currently pending in Congress that would enhance and expand support for Native American Language Revitalization. This past Spring, the U.S.

08/31/2021

The LSA has just learned of the death of Zdenek “Denny” Salzmann, which occurred earlier this Spring. Dr. Salzman was a Life Member of the LSA, having first joined in 1949.

08/13/2021

The LSA regrets to announce the passing of Lila R.

07/08/2021

The LSA congratulates its members on their recent elections to the Academia Europaea!

05/04/2021

Congratulations to LSA member Emily R. Lake, a Doctoral Candidate in Linguistics at Stanford University, on the receipt of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2021.

04/26/2021

The LSA congratulates its members and colleagues on their recent election to two of the most prestigious academies in the United States: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). 

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